“Farrah’s Story” is an NBC special that will air next week starring Farrah Fawcett, who takes you along beside her during her courageous battle with anal cancer.
As we reported back in January 2008, Farrah has been filming her trips to Germany throughout her treatment. She initially started recording her medical visits so that she would remember everything the doctors told her. She has had a camera alongside her since the beginning of her journey. She has since turned the footage into a documentary of sorts with the help of NBC.
In one clip Farrah explains,
“This film is very personal. At the time, I didn’t know if anybody would ever see it. But at some point, the footage took on a life of its own and dictated that it be seen.”
Farrah’s longtime BFF Alana Stewart did most of the filming and traveled with Farrah back and forth to Germany.
“Farrah’s Story,” will air on NBC May 15, 9-11 p.m.
As for Farrah’s current condition, our initial reports that Farrah is doing fine were correct. (We had disputed Baby Huey blogger’s story) But Harvey Levine (of TMZ) later had me scratching my head about a mention on his Twitter that people “were saying their goodbyes” to Farrah at her home last week. But thank goodness that was NOT true. She really is hanging in there and doing as well as she can be.
Farrah’s longtime partner Ryan O’Neal recently opened up to People magazine and said the cancer has been absolutely heartbreaking.
He says, “It’s a love story. I just don’t know how to play this one. I won’t know this world without her. Cancer is an insidious enemy.”
He says Farrah’s treatments are over and that she is staying comfortable. “She stays in bed now…Farrah is on IVs, but some of that is for nourishment. The treatment has pretty much ended.
“At about the halfway point in our trips the news started to get darker and darker and darker. The hope started to fade. But not for Farrah. She continued fighting. There was always a courage there, and a quiet dignity. Farrah never changed. I fell in love with her all over again because of how she handled this.”
As for all the drama with her son, Ryan says she has been shielded from all of that. “Farrah doesn’t know Redmond’s in trouble, and Redmond is terrified for his mother. ‘I don’t want to be in jail and have some guard tell me she is gone,’ he said to me. I told him, ‘She’s rebounding.’ I lied to him. I lie to her. It’s the best thing.”
Lies kill people….what a wicked game he’s playing with everyone.
Manipulating everyone’s life with lies, when all is said and done, he’ll have nothing but deceit and manipulation to show for it. Redmond is in big trouble, I hope he lives long enough to see age 40. He has never seemed to care one iota about his life.
Such a sad story, too bad to see such a person end up this way. The war on cancer has been a total failure, and its time to admit this fact. Billions of dollars and thousands of researchers and we can offer 4-6 month improvement in survival with drugs that cost thousand per treatment. 50% of all bankruptcy cases are folk trying to pay for these treatments that do little but make a few execs rich. And we all sit back and watch the system continue.
Kudos to Farrah. God bless her, she’s a beautiful, corageous lady.
Farrah Fawcett is not the only person who has cancer; there are millions of people suffering all around the world. She has had more of a life than most of us; she should go silently and in peace. We all have are own problems. If it were us she would not blink an eye. So much for celebrity. I hope she gets her peace. Another bites the dust.
Wow Rose. You sound really bitter. Ms. Fawcett hasn’t asked for all this publicity about her final days. She probably is not even aware of what’s going on in that regard. From all accounts, sh is barely cognizant of her surroundings at this point. You also have no clue as to how she would react to someone else’s suffering, as you do not even know the woman. Sounds to me like you don’t like what you see in the mirror each day, therefore you cannot handle the beauty or fame of others.
I think O’Neil is really trying to protect himself with the lies; he has a lot of emotional stress at this time dealing with his own cancer, worrying about Farrah, and then the son. The son is young and strong and will bounce back where O’Neil is fighting his own battle and trying to stay strong to support Farrah. You just never know what fate brings.
My son at 18 was diagnosed with 2 types of cancer and in stage 4 – barely a chance of making it. Without all the details he had one type like Lance Armstrong that is treatable with chemo and the other was teratoma that has no treatment. It has been 3 years now and his is doing quite well except for some problems because of all he went through with the surgery. I thank God for those people at Cleveland Clinic and all the prayers for him.
This family is going through rough times, that is for sure. I don’t think I care to watch Farrah’s show, but it would be nice if she would donate all the proceeds to such a place as the Cleveland Clinic for cancer research or the American Cancer Society because that organization is a God Send to people in so many ways, just like providing a place to stay for those that travel in for treatments far from home… so much support from those places you never realize until you need it.
Rose I am right there with you. My sentiments exactly!
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I am 35 years old and have been fighting an autoimmune illness for a long time.
I find it interesting and yet appalling at the same time that people make hero’s out out of people fighting cancer or whom have beat it. This has been weighing on my heart for some time now and I just have to say some things here,
what makes people hero’s who put chemo in their bodies and fight a disease? Is it because it is deadly? What is it? Because there are millions out there who fight autoimmune diseases and parasitic and fungal infections that are just as bad or worse and they have a slow lonely death and no one talks about them. Their fight and how hard it was.
So this also really astounds me, when celebrities complain how hard it is to fight an illness when no privacy is available, yet you have someone there that loves you deeply actually a whole team of people, you have money and the only worry is cancer, now I have news for you, there are people with cancer and autoimmune diseases that are just as sick as you are, they are not celebrities so in essence they get bypassed in treatment for better advice for health, they have no money and have to scramble for food, and some even work, with stage 4 cancer because their husbands left them because they could no longer deal with it, or their family deserted them and they have no one and have to deal with the awful disease all alone with no one to say even when you die… if you do… I will always love you, and by the way that counts for everything! Everyone needs love!
People, the hero’s out there are firefighters and medical personal (some of them) who risk their health and lives daily to help others– that is if they are doing it for that reason. But you get what I am trying to say,
My point; Yes I am ill, and I know people who have had cancer, many in my life in fact and they became hero’s for it, and I am thinking for what? What did you do that is so different? You got labeled, so someone like myself with an autoimmune disease does not have the so called Nordstrom label of disease, we have the walmart label, which is yours isn’t as bad and ours makes us better so we get attention and marathons created after us and we get funds to help us buy a bigger house and we have tons of people around us all the time, but you, Walmart label of illness, have to struggle, we don’t know why maybe it compares to fashion couture to not couture and well we think cancer makes us better.
Got news for you folks, my illness for 12.5 years has destroyed my life and affected those around me so adversely, cancer would have been a much easier choice or anything else than a lengthy disease that bankrupts your life in every way, when you go from on your way to prosperous pro model and dancer to in bed and people leave your life one at a time, saying your illness won’t go away I cannot deal with this, bye, so they go out and play and have fun and recover , yet I never recover, I sit here wondering what the hell is going on here that I was popular and a dancer and could run circles around anyone and now I am the suffering, the walking wounded, the angry person that says this not only sucks, it is a living nightmare and I deal with it all alone! Yes folks all alone! And I grew up in California and still live here and no love! I even wrote politicians here to try to get help for the disabled in our state and country and they ignored me, I wrote about 7 senators and I wrote our Governor. Am I surprised? No. But, If you knew the living situations I have been in due to not knowing where money will come next for food or rent and how people have taken advantage of me because of being ill… I have every right to be angry because
of so many reasons, but the main one is people who have money or have people that love them throughout your illness, stop complaining that this or that is wrong when you have people around you that love you so much even when you are sick,you live very nicely and lavishly some of you… just imagine if you were one of those millions of people like myself who suffer in silence and are broke on top of that! And have to keep silent because society won’t accept MY disease, but they certainly accept your cancer and feel oh so sorry for you, and that makes me sick inside, even further.
One more thing, celebrities or ones who become celebrities for their cancer fight, or non celebrities who become hero’s in their own family or community, it’s crap it’s all crap, and a 2.5 year battle with cancer seems much easier than what I have been through in sheer torcher for 12.5 years, & just because I have not had a verbal death sentence does not mean anything, I worry everyday what if this? what if I die alone here and why me? When I had everyone love me when I was able to give and give and give and be the energetic one who lifted everyone else up? Now I am all alone, my family has deserted me and left me to rot and they thrive, while my big dreams have faded and I am without words of my deep anger even though I have had to be a super positive person the entire time of this drawn out humiliating disease, and I know there are millions out there just like me who feel the same way-
I had to say something, I have just had it with this hero this and hero that… woo hoo I overcame cancer, yes and who did you attribute to helping you? Money, your mom, your friends… see? It wasn’t you!!! Get over yourself! This whole Michael J Fox thing, I like the guy, but geez, you become a hero for parkinsons, because you are known for fighting this everyday like millions of others and you make it sound like it is soooo hard and no one else fights it like you do, now I want to see you have the same “I can do this spirit” (Incurable optimist mentality) and give up all your money, and your family and your friends and deal with the disease fending for your food daily and how you will pay rent and fight the disease and stay sane the entire time! That is a hero, a silent one but it is! And there are millions out there who do this everyday and get no love and no help!
So let’s start highlighting people in society who deal with much harsher circumstances, than is talked about, rather than glamorizing the I have cancer so make me even more richer & more amazing, when you are not! Let’s stop covering up things and quit putting celebrities above their station in life, it is simply pathetic.
I Thank you for reading this and I hope you will pass it on and post it somewhere.
AD
Webmaster please pass my email address along to AD. It doesn’t matter if this is posted or not as long as she gets it.
AD, I hear your pain. I feel you. I’m living with aquired immune deficency syndrome. It continues to have a huge stigma attached to it. This is of course from lack of knowledge on the part of the those that are predisposed to judge those with the disease. It’s a virus. The common cold is a virus.
I’m sorry to hear those you love have left you. It reflects on them, not you. It sounds like it is time to grow a new family. It can be done. Please contact me.
OMG Farrah please get Suzanne somers book talks about cancer in her book hormones play such a big part in this please please take a look at this is could help save your life.All the radiation is doing honey is depleting you.I do not want you to die either.Im no doctor I do not have a degree of any sort but does not mean I couldnt. But that does not mean I dont know what I am talking about,Farrah I love you and hope you get well Angela
OMG Farrah please get Suzanne somers book BREAKTHROUGH talks about cancer in her book hormones play such a big part in this please please take a look at this is could help save your life.All the radiation is doing honey is depleting you.I do not want you to die either.Im no doctor I do not have a degree of any sort but does not mean I couldnt. But that does not mean I dont know what I am talking about,Farrah I love you and hope you get well Angela